Vain and Transitory Love: Mural Paintings in the Zirovnice Chamber and Mural Decoration in Late Gothic Secular Interiors
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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11240%2F17%3A10365019" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11240/17:10365019 - isvavai.cz</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Vain and Transitory Love: Mural Paintings in the Zirovnice Chamber and Mural Decoration in Late Gothic Secular Interiors
Original language description
The study presents a detailed analysis of the late medieval murals in the so-called 'green chamber' of Zirovnice Castle. The paintings from the early 149os are exceptional for their artistic quality and they are generally considered a significant example of 'green chambers', secular halls decorated by a green colour and floral ornament. Compared to the earlier literature the study focuses on the interrelations between the scenes depicted in the 'green chamber': the Judgement of Paris, Judith beheading Holofernes, the exemplum An Old Woman Is Worse than the Devil as well as an image which was previously described as the Judgement of Solomon (perhaps rather a parable about legitimate and illegitimate progeny). They are connected by the historically popular concept of a critique of the power of women (Weibermacht). In Zirovnice, this concept was connected to the allegory of the transcience of love and the ephemeral nature of the world overall. The ostensible genre depictions of the hunt and tournament, also present in the 'green chamber' of Zirovnice, can be interpreted in this sense as well. This is demonstrated by numerous details subverting the meaning of these images. The theme of the transience of earthly pleasures probably stands behind another unique part of the murals, a view of Zirovnice itself. This is concluded on the basis of a comparison with a contemporary drawing by Albrecht Durer and a later print by Erhard Schoen. The study then compares Zirovnice to other similar murals in Bohemia and addresses the question of the art-historical phenomenon of 'green chambers' as various secular murals are called following the Czech art historian Josef Krasa. Although Krasa's concept may be refuted nowadays, the thematic coherence he noted in various late medieval murals in secular interiors cannot be denied. The study also mentions many examples of this type in Italy, Germany and Austria.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60401 - Arts, Art history
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LD15116" target="_blank" >LD15116: New Communities of Interpretation: Contexts of Religious Transformation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Bohemia</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Umění
ISSN
0049-5123
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Volume of the periodical
65
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
2-25
UT code for WoS article
000405648800001
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